New Book - The Lands of Karst

We would like to draw your attention to a new book that introduces to the amazing underground world, the environment of caves and karst formations.

This book is called “The Lands of Karst: A Visual Story” which comprises around 500 nice photographs as a contribution to the 2021 - International Year of Cave and Karst declared by the International Union of Speleology and supported by UNESCO and numerous institutions and organizations.

The colour photographs are from six Lands of Karst of ex-Yugoslavia - Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia, which had been recorded by more than 70 geologists, speleologists, biologists, archaeologists, mountaineers, professional photographers or simply amateurs - karst and caves lovers. The authors, Neven Kresic and Zoran Stevanovic by following the rule “a picture is worth a thousand words” prepared very short informative texts for 10 chapters featuring photographs of noisy rivers, wild mountains, silent lakes, the sea, limestone walls, rough surfaces, fountains of life, windows to unknown, magic chambers, underground creatures, wildlife, and past and present human inhabitants. 

The book is available for free download on the web site of the Centre for Karst Hydrogeology FMG, Belgrade (pdf is about 100Mb). If you would like to hold it between your hands, good news: the book is also available at Amazon.com, at a symbolic price for hard copy, which covers just printing cost.

The authors are encouraging you to spread the word. The idea is to have the book widely available worldwide, so anyone can learn, for free, what the “classic karst” looks like.

You are welcome to step with us into Our Worlds, The Lands of Karst!